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2010 Annual Conference and General Assembly
from 05/10/2010 to 09/10/2010
Accra, Ghana
From October 5th to 9th, 2010, the Africa Microfinance Network (AFMIN) will organize its 9th Annual Conference on the theme "Access to Financial Services: Reaching the Poor and Excluded"....
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Technologies and Innovations
Technology can reduce transaction costs and improve transparency in delivering financial services, both of which can translate into increased access and lower costs for many lower-income clients. Streamlined and automated processes allow financial institutions to extend services to harder-to-reach and more costly clientele by replacing people and branches with point-of-sale (POS) devices and branchless banking strategies. Technology undergirds the management information and reporting systems that are essential for efficient financial service delivery.
Despite the appeal of advanced delivery technologies, relatively few financial institutions have successfully deployed them to reach poor and low-income clients. Developing a solid management information system still remains one of the most important tasks facing microfinance institutions, particularly those scaling up. Challenges include the high cost and limited availability of existing technological solutions, lack of widely available local technical support to support MIS software, consumer adoption rates of technology, lack of basic communications infrastructure in many countries, and inadequate policy environments.
Resources :
Information Systems: Technology Dictionary
Management Information Systems for Microfinance Institutions: A Handbook (Technical Tool Series No. 01)
Bibliography of Resources on Non-MIS Technologies and Microfinance
Banking Through Networks of Retail Agents
Mas, I. & Siedek, H., Consultative Group to Assist the Poor, 2008 CGAP Focus Note No. 47 examines whether technology can enable secure and remote interaction between banks and their customers
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Management Information Systems for Microfinance: An Evaluation Framework
Mainhart, A., USAID - Microenterprise Best Practices Project, 1999 A framework for analyzing the quality of information systems
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